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Some months ago, Espressif announced the production of a new chip, named ESP32-PICO-D4. It’s a complete SiP (System in Package), that is a chip which integrates the esp32 microcontroller, a 4Mbit flash memory, a crystal oscillator, filter capacitors and

For some time, on different chinese webstores (for example Banggood) there is a module called JQ6500 for sale: it’s often described as a voice sound module or as an MP3 player sound module. Actually JQ6500 is the name

Some time ago my friend Mauro Alfieri showed me an interesting development board produced by DFRobot and called Bluno Beetle (now Beetle Ble). It seemed the perfect board to start “playing” with the Bluetooth Low

Today I received from Banggood a GSM module based on the SIM800 chip by SIMCom. I’m going to use this module in a future Arduino project that will allow me to remotely control devices. In this article I’ll show you

An italian company, Lemontech, kindly provided me a sample of their new Arduino shield, named BlueRelayShield: The yellow-colored shield has: Using this shield you can switch on/off two loads (connected to the relays) sending commands via Bluetooth. HC-05 Module The included HC-05

Farnell kindly offered me to test and review the new microcontroller in mbed family, the NXP LPC11U24. mbed microcontrollers are designed for rapid prototyping: Since a few weeks, the new model NXP LPC11U24 is available